Lingayen — Board Member Amado I. Espino, III, Liga ng mga Barangay provincial president, rallied students of the Pangasinan State University (PSU) to “lead in the moral and spiritual regeneration in their respective communities.” “You lead by example,” Espino III urged the students during the Acquaintance Ball and Induction Ceremony of…
2015 BUDGET DELIBERATIONS LINGAYEN—Being the vice chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations has its advantages. According to Second District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil, as vice chairman of the House committee on appropriations he has full and direct access to details of the budgets of the national agencies and…
By Venus May H. Sarmiento, PIA THEY live a life above the ground, literally. And, we are not referring to birds or planes. They are people-in the flesh. They are the linemen, the silent heroes of the power industry, particularly of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines. There was Radito Agas,…
MASS FOR IRAQ THE leader of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has requested his fellow bishops in the country to offer all their Masses on August 18 as Votive Mass for peace and reconciliation in Iraq. Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, in a statement, described his suggested activity as “a gesture…
ANOTHER batch of 1,648 beneficiaries in Dagupan City have been provided PhilHealth coverage through the Alagang Balon Dagupan expanded health program of Mayor Belen T. Fernandez. Among the beneficiaries were barangay-based volunteer workers and members of the barangay council, barangay health workers, day care workers, members of the barangay police,…
BUGALLON—Some 221 severely underweight children aged 0-7 months old in 24 barangays of the town receive 200-milliliter of carabao milk daily to drink over a 90-day period that started last July, courtesy of the local government. The milk supply is being delivered house-to-house by barangay health scholars. The “Adopt a…
FOR ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN THE Dagupan City Anti-Drug Abuse Council (CADAC) agreed on Wednesday to establish a baseline listing persons suspected either as drug pusher or user in every barangay for the city’s demand-reduction campaign. The agreement was reached during the meeting presided by Mayor Belen T. Fernandez as chairperson. City Police…
TO EMPOWER EDUCATORS IN ICT SMART City, here we come! The Department of Education (DepEd) schools division has began implementing a technology plan program in support to the vision of the city government to make Dagupan City a “smart city” by 2016. The tech plan program formulated by Gloria Torres,…
TO CONTAIN SOIL EROSION BUGALLON—Flash floods have begun to threaten parts of the town with serious soil erosion prompting the local government to resort to sandbagging. Already, some 2,000 sand bags have been positioned near Dumoloc Dam in barangays Umanday and Bolaoen last August 5. Town mayor Jumel Anthony Espino, who…
A state-of-the-art diagnostic center will soon rise in Dagupan City to further expand the healthcare services being provided by the city government for the city’s marginalized sector. This will be made possible through the P10 million grant from the European Union (EU) for the construction of the modern diagnostic facility….
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